Assistant or Associate Professor of Psychology
University of Kentucky · Greater Lexington Area · 1 mo ago
EducationFull-time
We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse posting.
Key info:
- Job Title: Assistant or Associate Professor of Psychology (not heading)
- Department: Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- Type: Faculty Position, Full-Time, Tenure Track
- Required Education: PhD in Psychology
- Required Related Experience: N/A (skip)
- Required License/Registration/Certification: N/A (skip)
- Job Summary: description of positions, start date Aug 1 2027, 9-month, distribution of effort 25% teaching, 70% research, 5% service. Seek cognitive neuroscientists, clinical neuroscientists, clinical neuropsychologists with expertise in neuroscience methodologies. Department includes Cognitive Neuroscience area, APA/PCSAS-accredited Clinical Psychology PhD training program with Clinical Neuropsychology concentration. Candidates join Cognitive Neuroscience area, expected to conduct research fostering collaboration across Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical faculty. May affiliate with Clinical Psychology training program. Research focus open, may complement existing areas: substance use, brain injury, decision making, attentional processes, learning and memory, Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, affective disorders, ADHD—or introduce new areas. Candidates should have strong research program, demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications and potential to secure extramural funding. Successful candidates will also contribute to teaching and service missions and be prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in their area of expertise. At UK, faculty psychologists lead multidisciplinary research teams and conduct collaborative research across range of clinical settings: Department of Psychiatry, Markey Cancer Center, Kentucky Clinic, Gill Heart and Vascular Institute, Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, Eastern State Hospital, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. Additional research infrastructure: Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) provides resources such as biomarker analysis and outpatient clinical research unit. UK Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center (MRISC) supports structural and functional neuroimaging with Siemens PRISMA 3T MRI scanner. A PhD in Psychology required at time of appointment.
- Application materials: letter of application (cover letter), CV, research statement (specific statement 1), teaching statement (specific statement 2). Provide names and contact info for three references when prompted.
- Questions to: Mark Fillmore (Fillmore@uky.edu) or Anthony Zanesco (anthony.zanesco@uky.edu), Search Committee Chairs.
- Application Deadline: 10/07/2026. This posting will remain open until both positions are filled.
- Employment at UK subject to fund availability, many rewards focusing on total well-being and career development, leadership striving to provide strong work-life integration. University generously contributes to employees’ retirement plans, medical coverage, and life insurance. Optional benefits such as dental and vision insurance, additional retirement plans and much more. To learn more about these benefits, please visit: https://hr.uky.edu/employment/our-benefits
- Skills/Knowledge/Abilities: Does this position have supervisory responsibilities? No
- Preferred Education/Experience: (blank?) Not given.
- Deadline to Apply: Open Until Filled Yes
- Our University Community: well-being, Tobacco & Drug Free campus, nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, etc. This is boilerplate EEO; we should remove.
- Any candidate offered a position may be required to pass pre-employment screenings as mandated by UK HR. These screenings may include a national background check and/or drug screen. This is also boilerplate; we can remove.
We need to include sections only when there is real specific content.
Potential sections:
- About the role (could contain job summary, description)
- Responsibilities (teaching, research, service distribution)
- Requirements (required education, maybe required experience if present, but it's N/A so skip)
- Qualifications (maybe research program, publications, funding potential)
- Skills (maybe supervisory responsibilities? but that's a No; maybe not needed)
- Benefits (mention retirement plans, medical coverage, life insurance, optional benefits, link)
- Pay (not specified, so skip)
- Schedule (9-month position, start date Aug 1 2027, full-time; we have schedule info: 9-month appointment, full-time, start date. That's specific. So we can include Schedule section.)
We need to decide what goes where.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to include all substantive info from posting, but we can organize into sections.
Let's extract substantive info:
- Department: Psychology, College of Arts Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
- Position type: Faculty Position, Full-Time, Tenure Track.
- Two tenure-eligible faculty positions at Assistant or Associate Professor level.
- 9-month positions in regular title series.
- Anticipated start date: August 1, 2027.
- Distribution of Effort: 25% teaching, 70% research, 5% departmental service.
- Seek candidates who identify professionally as cognitive neuroscientists, clinical neuroscientists, or clinical neuropsychologists with expertise in neuroscience methodologies (e.g., neuroimaging, biomarkers, computational modeling, genomics, or other advanced neuroscientific research methods).
- Department includes Cognitive Neuroscience area with both basic and clinically focused research programs (e.g., substance use, ADHD), as well as an APA/PCSAS-accredited Clinical Psychology PhD training program that includes a Clinical Neuropsychology concentration.
- Successful candidates will join the Cognitive Neuroscience area of the experimental doctoral program and are expected to conduct research that fosters collaboration across Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical faculty.
- Candidates may also affiliate with the Clinical Psychology training program if appropriate to their interests and training.
- Research focus is open and may complement existing areas of expertise within the department and university—including substance use, brain injury, decision making, attentional processes, learning and memory, Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, affective disorders, and ADHD—or introduce new areas of cognitive or behavioral neuroscience research.
- Candidates should have a strong research program, demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications and the potential to secure extramural funding.
- Successful candidates will also contribute to the department’s teaching and service missions and be prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in their area of expertise.
- At the University of Kentucky, faculty psychologists regularly lead multidisciplinary research teams and conduct collaborative research across a range of clinical settings, including the Department of Psychiatry, Markey Cancer Center, Kentucky Clinic, Gill Heart and Vascular Institute, Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, Eastern State Hospital, and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.
- Additional research infrastructure includes the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), which provides resources such as biomarker analysis and an outpatient clinical research unit.
- The UK Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center (MRISC) supports structural and functional neuroimaging with a Siemens PRISMA 3T MRI scanner.
- A PhD in Psychology is required at time of appointment.
- Application materials: letter of application (upload as Cover Letter), CV, research statement (upload as specific statement 1), teaching statement (upload as specific statement 2). In addition, please provide the names and contact information for three references when prompted in the academic profile.
- Questions about this search should be addressed to Mark Fillmore (Fillmore@uky.edu) or Anthony Zanesco (anthony.zanesco@uky.edu), Search Committee Chairs, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
- Application Deadline is 10/07/2026. This posting will remain open until both positions are filled.
- Employment at the University of Kentucky is subject to fund availability and comes with many rewards, focusing on your total well-being and career development, with leadership striving to provide a strong work-life integration.
- The University generously contributes to employees’ retirement plans, medical coverage, and life insurance.
- In addition, the University of Kentucky offers optional benefits such as dental and vision insurance, additional retirement plans and much more.
- To learn more about these benefits, please visit: https://hr.uky.edu/employment/our-benefits
- Skills/Knowledge/Abilities: Does this position have supervisory responsibilities? No
- Preferred Education/Experience: (none given)
- Deadline to Apply: Open Until Filled Yes
- Our University Community: (EEO boilerplate) remove.
- Pre-employment screenings: (boilerplate) remove.
We need to avoid repeating info.
Now decide sections:
- About the role: could include overview: department, position type, number of positions, level, start date, 9-month, tenure track, etc.
- Responsibilities: could include distribution of effort (teaching 25%, research 70%, service 5%), teaching expectations (undergraduate and graduate courses), research expectations (collaborate, lead teams, etc.), service expectations.
- Requirements: required education (PhD in Psychology). Could also include required experience (N/A skip). Could also include required license (N/A skip). Could also include required expertise (cognitive neuroscientist etc.) but that's more qualifications.
- Qualifications: could include strong research program, peer-reviewed publications, potential to secure extramural funding, expertise in neuroscience methodologies, ability to teach, etc.
- Skills: supervisory responsibilities? No. Could also include maybe not needed.
- Benefits: retirement plans, medical coverage, life insurance, optional dental/vision, additional retirement plans, link.
- Schedule: 9-month appointment, full-time, anticipated start date Aug 1 2027.
- Pay: not specified, skip.
We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So skip Pay.
We need to ensure we don't repeat info across sections unnecessarily, but it's okay if some overlap as long as we preserve all substantive info. However we should aim to not duplicate excessively.
Let's craft HTML.
We'll start with
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Only include sections that have real specific content.
We must not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID etc. Remove boilerplate, EEO, etc. Preserve all substantive info.
We need to parse posting.
Key info:
- Job Title: Assistant or Associate Professor of Psychology (not heading)
- Department: Psychology, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY
- Type: Faculty Position, Full-Time, Tenure Track
- Required Education: PhD in Psychology
- Required Related Experience: N/A (skip)
- Required License/Registration/Certification: N/A (skip)
- Job Summary: description of positions, start date Aug 1 2027, 9-month, distribution of effort 25% teaching, 70% research, 5% service. Seek cognitive neuroscientists, clinical neuroscientists, clinical neuropsychologists with expertise in neuroscience methodologies. Department includes Cognitive Neuroscience area, APA/PCSAS-accredited Clinical Psychology PhD training program with Clinical Neuropsychology concentration. Candidates join Cognitive Neuroscience area, expected to conduct research fostering collaboration across Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical faculty. May affiliate with Clinical Psychology training program. Research focus open, may complement existing areas: substance use, brain injury, decision making, attentional processes, learning and memory, Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, affective disorders, ADHD—or introduce new areas. Candidates should have strong research program, demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications and potential to secure extramural funding. Successful candidates will also contribute to teaching and service missions and be prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in their area of expertise. At UK, faculty psychologists lead multidisciplinary research teams and conduct collaborative research across range of clinical settings: Department of Psychiatry, Markey Cancer Center, Kentucky Clinic, Gill Heart and Vascular Institute, Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, Eastern State Hospital, Sanders-Brown Center on Aging. Additional research infrastructure: Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center, Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS) provides resources such as biomarker analysis and outpatient clinical research unit. UK Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center (MRISC) supports structural and functional neuroimaging with Siemens PRISMA 3T MRI scanner. A PhD in Psychology required at time of appointment.
- Application materials: letter of application (cover letter), CV, research statement (specific statement 1), teaching statement (specific statement 2). Provide names and contact info for three references when prompted.
- Questions to: Mark Fillmore (Fillmore@uky.edu) or Anthony Zanesco (anthony.zanesco@uky.edu), Search Committee Chairs.
- Application Deadline: 10/07/2026. This posting will remain open until both positions are filled.
- Employment at UK subject to fund availability, many rewards focusing on total well-being and career development, leadership striving to provide strong work-life integration. University generously contributes to employees’ retirement plans, medical coverage, and life insurance. Optional benefits such as dental and vision insurance, additional retirement plans and much more. To learn more about these benefits, please visit: https://hr.uky.edu/employment/our-benefits
- Skills/Knowledge/Abilities: Does this position have supervisory responsibilities? No
- Preferred Education/Experience: (blank?) Not given.
- Deadline to Apply: Open Until Filled Yes
- Our University Community: well-being, Tobacco & Drug Free campus, nondiscrimination, equal opportunity, etc. This is boilerplate EEO; we should remove.
- Any candidate offered a position may be required to pass pre-employment screenings as mandated by UK HR. These screenings may include a national background check and/or drug screen. This is also boilerplate; we can remove.
We need to include sections only when there is real specific content.
Potential sections:
- About the role (could contain job summary, description)
- Responsibilities (teaching, research, service distribution)
- Requirements (required education, maybe required experience if present, but it's N/A so skip)
- Qualifications (maybe research program, publications, funding potential)
- Skills (maybe supervisory responsibilities? but that's a No; maybe not needed)
- Benefits (mention retirement plans, medical coverage, life insurance, optional benefits, link)
- Pay (not specified, so skip)
- Schedule (9-month position, start date Aug 1 2027, full-time; we have schedule info: 9-month appointment, full-time, start date. That's specific. So we can include Schedule section.)
We need to decide what goes where.
We must not invent or summarize away detail. Must preserve all substantive info.
We need to include all substantive info from posting, but we can organize into sections.
Let's extract substantive info:
- Department: Psychology, College of Arts Sciences, University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY.
- Position type: Faculty Position, Full-Time, Tenure Track.
- Two tenure-eligible faculty positions at Assistant or Associate Professor level.
- 9-month positions in regular title series.
- Anticipated start date: August 1, 2027.
- Distribution of Effort: 25% teaching, 70% research, 5% departmental service.
- Seek candidates who identify professionally as cognitive neuroscientists, clinical neuroscientists, or clinical neuropsychologists with expertise in neuroscience methodologies (e.g., neuroimaging, biomarkers, computational modeling, genomics, or other advanced neuroscientific research methods).
- Department includes Cognitive Neuroscience area with both basic and clinically focused research programs (e.g., substance use, ADHD), as well as an APA/PCSAS-accredited Clinical Psychology PhD training program that includes a Clinical Neuropsychology concentration.
- Successful candidates will join the Cognitive Neuroscience area of the experimental doctoral program and are expected to conduct research that fosters collaboration across Cognitive Neuroscience and Clinical faculty.
- Candidates may also affiliate with the Clinical Psychology training program if appropriate to their interests and training.
- Research focus is open and may complement existing areas of expertise within the department and university—including substance use, brain injury, decision making, attentional processes, learning and memory, Alzheimer’s disease and related disorders, affective disorders, and ADHD—or introduce new areas of cognitive or behavioral neuroscience research.
- Candidates should have a strong research program, demonstrated through peer-reviewed publications and the potential to secure extramural funding.
- Successful candidates will also contribute to the department’s teaching and service missions and be prepared to teach undergraduate and graduate courses in their area of expertise.
- At the University of Kentucky, faculty psychologists regularly lead multidisciplinary research teams and conduct collaborative research across a range of clinical settings, including the Department of Psychiatry, Markey Cancer Center, Kentucky Clinic, Gill Heart and Vascular Institute, Kentucky Neuroscience Institute, Eastern State Hospital, and Sanders-Brown Center on Aging.
- Additional research infrastructure includes the Spinal Cord and Brain Injury Research Center and the Center for Clinical and Translational Science (CCTS), which provides resources such as biomarker analysis and an outpatient clinical research unit.
- The UK Magnetic Resonance Imaging and Spectroscopy Center (MRISC) supports structural and functional neuroimaging with a Siemens PRISMA 3T MRI scanner.
- A PhD in Psychology is required at time of appointment.
- Application materials: letter of application (upload as Cover Letter), CV, research statement (upload as specific statement 1), teaching statement (upload as specific statement 2). In addition, please provide the names and contact information for three references when prompted in the academic profile.
- Questions about this search should be addressed to Mark Fillmore (Fillmore@uky.edu) or Anthony Zanesco (anthony.zanesco@uky.edu), Search Committee Chairs, Department of Psychology, University of Kentucky.
- Application Deadline is 10/07/2026. This posting will remain open until both positions are filled.
- Employment at the University of Kentucky is subject to fund availability and comes with many rewards, focusing on your total well-being and career development, with leadership striving to provide a strong work-life integration.
- The University generously contributes to employees’ retirement plans, medical coverage, and life insurance.
- In addition, the University of Kentucky offers optional benefits such as dental and vision insurance, additional retirement plans and much more.
- To learn more about these benefits, please visit: https://hr.uky.edu/employment/our-benefits
- Skills/Knowledge/Abilities: Does this position have supervisory responsibilities? No
- Preferred Education/Experience: (none given)
- Deadline to Apply: Open Until Filled Yes
- Our University Community: (EEO boilerplate) remove.
- Pre-employment screenings: (boilerplate) remove.
We need to avoid repeating info.
Now decide sections:
- About the role: could include overview: department, position type, number of positions, level, start date, 9-month, tenure track, etc.
- Responsibilities: could include distribution of effort (teaching 25%, research 70%, service 5%), teaching expectations (undergraduate and graduate courses), research expectations (collaborate, lead teams, etc.), service expectations.
- Requirements: required education (PhD in Psychology). Could also include required experience (N/A skip). Could also include required license (N/A skip). Could also include required expertise (cognitive neuroscientist etc.) but that's more qualifications.
- Qualifications: could include strong research program, peer-reviewed publications, potential to secure extramural funding, expertise in neuroscience methodologies, ability to teach, etc.
- Skills: supervisory responsibilities? No. Could also include maybe not needed.
- Benefits: retirement plans, medical coverage, life insurance, optional dental/vision, additional retirement plans, link.
- Schedule: 9-month appointment, full-time, anticipated start date Aug 1 2027.
- Pay: not specified, skip.
We must not create sections with filler like "not specified". So skip Pay.
We need to ensure we don't repeat info across sections unnecessarily, but it's okay if some overlap as long as we preserve all substantive info. However we should aim to not duplicate excessively.
Let's craft HTML.
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Responsibilities
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Requirements
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Qualifications
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Benefits
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Schedule
withfor 9-month full-time, start date Aug 1 2027. We also need to include application details? The instructions say remove application instructions. So we should not include letter of application, CV, statements, references, contact info for chairs, deadline? Actually deadline is substantive info; we could include it maybe in About the role or a separate section like "Application Details". But we are not supposed to include application instructions. The deadline is part of posting details; maybe we can include it in About the role or a separate "Important Dates" section but we don't have a heading for that. The allowed headings are limited to those listed: About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we must fit deadline into one of those. Perhaps About the role can include deadline. Also we need to include contact for questions? That's also application-related; maybe we can include in About the role as well. But we must not include application instructions like "Applicants must include the following: letter of application..." etc. That's application instructions; we should remove. However the deadline and contact for questions might be considered part of application instructions? The instruction says: "Remove cookie/navigation/legal/EEO/equal-op
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- for research program, publications, funding potential, expertise in neuroscience methodologies, ability to teach, etc.
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